Daniel Ayalew Ali
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3703574 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Daniel Ayalew Ali |
| PRENOMES | Daniel Ayalew |
| SOBRENOME | Ali |
| ASSINATURA | ALI D A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3253-4897 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 197 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Clarifying overlapping land rights in semi-formal systems
The effect of the Nigeria governors’ forum nutrition scorecard in promoting accountability and nutrition governance at the subnational level in Nigeria
This study aims to demonstrate the effects of the NGF scorecard in enhancing accountability and governance, describing the limitations of the scorecard, and highlight the lessons learned in using the scorecard for improved nutrition governance in Nigeria. The study is a mixed retrospective descriptive study that examined the effect of the NGF nutrition scorecard on subnational nutrition accountability and governance. Secondary data was obtained t…
Using satellite imagery and a farmer registry to assess agricultural support in conflict settings
Reforming land valuation and taxation in Ukraine
Using free remotely sensed data to assess war-induced damage to agricultural cultivation
Impact of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian small and medium farmers’ productivity
Quantifying war-induced crop losses in Ukraine in near real time to strengthen local and global food security
We use a 4-year panel (2019–2022) of 10,125 village councils in Ukraine to estimate effects of the war started by Russia on area and expected yield of winter crops aggregated up from the field level. Satellite imagery is used to provide information on direct damage to agricultural fields; classify crop cover using machine learning; and compute the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for winter cereal fields as a proxy for yield. Without…
Using registry data to assess gender-differentiated land and credit market effects of urban land policy reform
While well-defined urban property rights to support land and financial markets are widely considered to be essential for economic development, many studies using household-based data to study titling programs’ impact yield inconclusive results. We use a 2010–13 titling program in Maseru to argue that this may partly be attributable to a failure of using administrative data and the fact that impacts of policy change that affect treatment and contr…
Pronatal Property Rights over Land and Fertility Outcomes
An exogenous policy change that ended the ability of rural Ethiopian households to affect the size or security of their land holdings through fertility decisions provides a natural experiment to explore the impact of land tenure institutions on fertility. Use of a difference-in-differences approach that uses aggregated data from censuses before (1994) and after (2007) the reform found large fertility effects, with rural women estimated to have re…
Institutional determinants of large land-based investments’ performance in Zambia
Sustaining land registration benefits by addressing the challenges of reversion to informality in Rwanda
Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency
Although a large literature highlights the impact of personality traits on key labour market outcomes, evidence of their impact on agricultural production decisions remains limited. Data from 1,200 Ghanaian rice farmers suggest that noncognitive skills (polychronicity, work centrality, and optimism) significantly affect simple adoption decisions, returns from adoption, and technical efficiency in rice production, and that the size of the estimate…
Using satellite imagery to assess impacts of soil and water conservation measures
Using National Statistics to Increase Transparency of Large Land Acquisition
New Ways to Assess and Enhance Land Registry Sustainability
Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity
Small price incentives increase women's access to land titles in Tanzania
Costs and Benefits of Land Fragmentation
This paper disentangles different aspects of land fragmentation and its impact on the efficiency of resource use. The paper uses information on the incidence of crop shocks to assess whether fragmentation provides benefits in reducing risk and parcel coordinates and terrain-adjusted travel times between parcels to more precisely account for the associated costs in 2010/11 data from Rwanda. While fragmentation increases the time required to move b…
Credit Constraints and Agricultural Productivity
While potentially negative impacts of credit constraints on economic development have long been discussed conceptually, empirical evidence for Africa remains limited. We use a direct elicitation approach on a national sample of Rwandan rural households to empirically assess the extent and nature of credit rationing in the semi-formal sector and its impact, using an endogenous switching model. Elimination of all constraints could increase output b…
Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa
We evaluate the short-term impact of a pilot land regularization program in Rwanda using a geographic discontinuity design with spatial fixed effects. Three key findings emerge from the analysis. First, the program seems to have improved land access for legally married women (about 76% of married couples) and prompted better recording of inheritance rights without gender bias. Second, we find that the program was associated with a very large impa…
Impacts of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Investment, and Land Market Participation
While early attempts at land titling in Africa were often unsuccessful, factors such as new legislation, low-cost methods, and increasing demand for land have generated renewed interest. A four-period panel allows use of a pipeline and difference-indifferences approach to assess impacts of land registration in Ethiopia. We find that the program increased tenure security, land-related investment, and rental market participation and yielded benefit…
Rural Land Certification in Ethiopia
Assessing the Functioning of Land Rental Markets in Ethiopia
Although a large theoretical literature discusses the possible inefficiency of sharecropping contracts, empirical evidence on this phenomenon has been ambiguous at best. Household‐level fixed‐effect estimates from about 8,500 plots operated by households that own and sharecrop land in the Ethiopian highlands provide support for the hypothesis of Marshallian inefficiency. At the same time, a factor adjustment model suggests that the extent to whic…
Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa
We evaluate the short-term impact of a pilot land regularization program in Rwanda using a geographic discontinuity design with spatial fixed effects. Three key findings emerge from the analysis. First, the program seems to have improved land access for legally married women (about 76% of married couples) and prompted better recording of inheritance rights without gender bias. Second, we find that the program was associated with a very large impa…
Rural Land Certification in Ethiopia
Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity
Small price incentives increase women's access to land titles in Tanzania
New Ways to Assess and Enhance Land Registry Sustainability
Assessing the Functioning of Land Rental Markets in Ethiopia
Although a large theoretical literature discusses the possible inefficiency of sharecropping contracts, empirical evidence on this phenomenon has been ambiguous at best. Household‐level fixed‐effect estimates from about 8,500 plots operated by households that own and sharecrop land in the Ethiopian highlands provide support for the hypothesis of Marshallian inefficiency. At the same time, a factor adjustment model suggests that the extent to whic…
Quantifying war-induced crop losses in Ukraine in near real time to strengthen local and global food security
We use a 4-year panel (2019–2022) of 10,125 village councils in Ukraine to estimate effects of the war started by Russia on area and expected yield of winter crops aggregated up from the field level. Satellite imagery is used to provide information on direct damage to agricultural fields; classify crop cover using machine learning; and compute the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for winter cereal fields as a proxy for yield. Without…
Sustaining land registration benefits by addressing the challenges of reversion to informality in Rwanda
Using National Statistics to Increase Transparency of Large Land Acquisition
Using free remotely sensed data to assess war-induced damage to agricultural cultivation
Institutional determinants of large land-based investments’ performance in Zambia
Using registry data to assess gender-differentiated land and credit market effects of urban land policy reform
While well-defined urban property rights to support land and financial markets are widely considered to be essential for economic development, many studies using household-based data to study titling programs’ impact yield inconclusive results. We use a 2010–13 titling program in Maseru to argue that this may partly be attributable to a failure of using administrative data and the fact that impacts of policy change that affect treatment and contr…
Using satellite imagery and a farmer registry to assess agricultural support in conflict settings
Rural Land Certification in Ethiopia
Assessing the Functioning of Land Rental Markets in Ethiopia
Although a large theoretical literature discusses the possible inefficiency of sharecropping contracts, empirical evidence on this phenomenon has been ambiguous at best. Household‐level fixed‐effect estimates from about 8,500 plots operated by households that own and sharecrop land in the Ethiopian highlands provide support for the hypothesis of Marshallian inefficiency. At the same time, a factor adjustment model suggests that the extent to whic…
Impacts of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Investment, and Land Market Participation
While early attempts at land titling in Africa were often unsuccessful, factors such as new legislation, low-cost methods, and increasing demand for land have generated renewed interest. A four-period panel allows use of a pipeline and difference-indifferences approach to assess impacts of land registration in Ethiopia. We find that the program increased tenure security, land-related investment, and rental market participation and yielded benefit…
Credit Constraints and Agricultural Productivity
While potentially negative impacts of credit constraints on economic development have long been discussed conceptually, empirical evidence for Africa remains limited. We use a direct elicitation approach on a national sample of Rwandan rural households to empirically assess the extent and nature of credit rationing in the semi-formal sector and its impact, using an endogenous switching model. Elimination of all constraints could increase output b…
Environmental and gender impacts of land tenure regularization in Africa
We evaluate the short-term impact of a pilot land regularization program in Rwanda using a geographic discontinuity design with spatial fixed effects. Three key findings emerge from the analysis. First, the program seems to have improved land access for legally married women (about 76% of married couples) and prompted better recording of inheritance rights without gender bias. Second, we find that the program was associated with a very large impa…
Costs and Benefits of Land Fragmentation
This paper disentangles different aspects of land fragmentation and its impact on the efficiency of resource use. The paper uses information on the incidence of crop shocks to assess whether fragmentation provides benefits in reducing risk and parcel coordinates and terrain-adjusted travel times between parcels to more precisely account for the associated costs in 2010/11 data from Rwanda. While fragmentation increases the time required to move b…
Investigating the Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity
Small price incentives increase women's access to land titles in Tanzania
Using National Statistics to Increase Transparency of Large Land Acquisition
New Ways to Assess and Enhance Land Registry Sustainability
Personality Traits, Technology Adoption, and Technical Efficiency
Although a large literature highlights the impact of personality traits on key labour market outcomes, evidence of their impact on agricultural production decisions remains limited. Data from 1,200 Ghanaian rice farmers suggest that noncognitive skills (polychronicity, work centrality, and optimism) significantly affect simple adoption decisions, returns from adoption, and technical efficiency in rice production, and that the size of the estimate…
Using satellite imagery to assess impacts of soil and water conservation measures
Sustaining land registration benefits by addressing the challenges of reversion to informality in Rwanda
Pronatal Property Rights over Land and Fertility Outcomes
An exogenous policy change that ended the ability of rural Ethiopian households to affect the size or security of their land holdings through fertility decisions provides a natural experiment to explore the impact of land tenure institutions on fertility. Use of a difference-in-differences approach that uses aggregated data from censuses before (1994) and after (2007) the reform found large fertility effects, with rural women estimated to have re…
Institutional determinants of large land-based investments’ performance in Zambia
Quantifying war-induced crop losses in Ukraine in near real time to strengthen local and global food security
We use a 4-year panel (2019–2022) of 10,125 village councils in Ukraine to estimate effects of the war started by Russia on area and expected yield of winter crops aggregated up from the field level. Satellite imagery is used to provide information on direct damage to agricultural fields; classify crop cover using machine learning; and compute the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for winter cereal fields as a proxy for yield. Without…
Using registry data to assess gender-differentiated land and credit market effects of urban land policy reform
While well-defined urban property rights to support land and financial markets are widely considered to be essential for economic development, many studies using household-based data to study titling programs’ impact yield inconclusive results. We use a 2010–13 titling program in Maseru to argue that this may partly be attributable to a failure of using administrative data and the fact that impacts of policy change that affect treatment and contr…
Using free remotely sensed data to assess war-induced damage to agricultural cultivation
Impact of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian small and medium farmers’ productivity
Clarifying overlapping land rights in semi-formal systems
The effect of the Nigeria governors’ forum nutrition scorecard in promoting accountability and nutrition governance at the subnational level in Nigeria
This study aims to demonstrate the effects of the NGF scorecard in enhancing accountability and governance, describing the limitations of the scorecard, and highlight the lessons learned in using the scorecard for improved nutrition governance in Nigeria. The study is a mixed retrospective descriptive study that examined the effect of the NGF nutrition scorecard on subnational nutrition accountability and governance. Secondary data was obtained t…
Using satellite imagery and a farmer registry to assess agricultural support in conflict settings
Reforming land valuation and taxation in Ukraine
Economics (17 obras) · Geography (16 obras) · Agriculture (13 obras) · Business (13 obras) · Land Rights and Reforms (13 obras) · Economic growth (10 obras) · Agricultural economics (9 obras) · Land tenure (8 obras) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 obras) · Natural resource economics (7 obras)